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To: C19fan

The man escaped from a prison in the Boer War...TWICE. He didn’t shrink from much.


3 posted on 07/09/2012 5:04:41 AM PDT by cotton1706
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I'm not sure what can top than considering all the places he has been to be but resigning as First Lord of the Admirality after Gallopi then leading a battalion in the trenches in Flanders is hard to comprehend in today's world.
5 posted on 07/09/2012 5:11:20 AM PDT by C19fan
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